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Gokstad ship

c. 890 · 9th century

The Gokstad ship is a Viking ship of about 890, found in a burial mound at Gokstad near Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway, and excavated in 1880. About 23 metres long, built of oak with sixteen pairs of oars and a sail, it was seaworthy enough for a replica to cross the Atlantic in 1893. It held the burial of a powerful man and is displayed in Oslo.

Gokstad ship
Image: Karamell · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gokstad ship. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gokstad-ship
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